Pope to Africa: “Don’t Use Condoms!”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 18, 2009 16:04 JST
- Tags: Africa, Bizarre, Cameroon, Contraception, Papism, Religion
The Pope has told Africans not to bother with condoms, as they can’t help against Aids or HIV, and just make things worse. Instead he recommends abstinence and “spiritual awakening.”
He claimed in a recently commenced visit to Africa that distributing condoms can’t help control the spread of Aids, and even goes so far as to claim that “they can even increase the problem”.
Instead of worldly latex, the Pope advocates “spiritual and human awakening” to combat the spread of the disease. He did not cite any clinical trials to support this method. The elderly German also urges sexual abstinence.
Tens of millions of Africans are already infected with HIV, so it is fortunate his flock have his wise words to guide them.
This visit comes in the context of increasing numbers of Papists on the continent, having in thirty years apparently increased 5%, to 17% of the African population.
Assuming his followers breed faster than they die from the disease, and that Muslims do not multiply even faster, his advice will doubtless ensure Catholicism’s market share increases in the coming years.
He will also be haranguing regional leaders over their corrupt and ineffective governance, and urging the continent to unite (under Christ, presumably), though he saw fit to start his visit with the weighty matter of condom usage.
Via the BBC.
You may also recall the Church was recently involved in the excommunication of a number of particularly sinful doctors…
To Love-Ru Darkness Totally Tentacular
Ano Hana Naruko Anjo Anal Dress Figure
Top 10 Most Followed Seiyuu
Wonder Festival 2012 Winter Wondrous As Ever
Ciel nosurge: “Your Date With Ion = $170″
Nisemonogatari – “Where Did All The Ero Go!?”
Police Hunt Ushijima for “Public Indecency”
Cops Bust Cop in Nude BDSM Club Raid
K-ON! “Causes Keionbu Girl Band Boom”
Vippers vs Vankers: 2ch Targets “Korean Propaganda”
Overflow Delays “Final” Game: “We Are Not Going Bankrupt!”
Ritsu Topless Manga Time – “She Has Boobs After All!”
Top 10 Most Boring Anime of Winter 2012
Behold: The ONACOUNTER
Future Diary Unveils Eye-Popping Scenes of Sex & Guro
K-ON! Pilgrims Invade London
Top 10 Essential Anime Elements
Lolicon Teacher Rapes Pupils 37 Times, Faces 30 Years
Strike Witches Movie Trailer Unveiled
China Menaced by Exploding Coins
Wonder Festival 2012 Winter Cosplay
“Post The Highest Level Cosplay Ever!”
“Share The Cutest Cosplay Ever”
“Dolls vs Figures – Which is Best?”
“Why Do Girls Always Have Such Cute Rooms!?”
Ranka Lee Wedding Dress Cosplay by Tomia
Shoko-tan’s Madoka & Ika-chan Cosplay “Excessively Cute”
Guilty Crown Yuzuriha Inori Cosplay by Sasa
IdolMaster G4U: “Who Needs 3D Idols Now?”
Anegasaki Nene Cosplay by Rinami
lol religion
Man, I'm so glad I'm not Catholic...
Draconian and antiquated views on women and sex are 2 main reasons to take religion figuratively because if you take it literally females and sex become evil and traps get shot on site.
Think of the traps people!
lol catholics
lol religion in general
A lot of people here are displaying ignorance to the Catholic faith. This story makes a lot more sense if you know the background to these people.
Basically the Catholic church views copulation as a 'sacrament' that is: a sacred ceremony with procreation, making babies, being the only point to it. So by using any form of contraception you are defiling the ceremony and committing a mortal sin which means you automatically go to hell forever. Since not going to hell is obviously more important than dying it's better to risk catching AIDS than risk tarnishing your immortal soul, so long as you're married and doing it solely for the purposes of procreation.
I make no apologies for this incredibly fucked up logic.
sarcasm?
no worst, sad painful truth. some of the ideas the Catholic fath run on is outdated by today's standards. also Index said it best, Politics got mixed in with Religion.
and this is one of the many many reasons the religious world was lucky to have Martin Luther.
After watching several videos by TOKYO HOT, I agree that wearing condoms will only make things worse. Also, I'm glad the Pope does not command Space Marines.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
yup,and he's German too.
also Jewish.
contradiction?
Well, he does have a point.
Start handing out condoms to them, and they'll probably start doing it more. Not to mention probably using the condoms incorrectly.
What the region really needs is a better education system.
Yep. We will beat AIDS with a lot of friendship power. He's watching too many animus.
Suddenly I understand why he needs that bulletproof popemobile -.-
They will outbreed the condom users! Or kill each other off with extreme AIDS.
The latter is sorta satisfying, in a Darwin Award way.
Can we bring back Pope John Paul II please?
Masturbation saves !!!
the pope is a fucking idiot. fuck isms, haven't done anything but enslave and numb the minds and hearts of innoncent people.
I can't believe how many posts are spawned everytime there's a news topic regarding about Christfaggotry, as well as MikeeUSA trolling.
Mikee is a faggot.
Educational institutions are removed from official Catholic lists when they invite Hillary Clinton to speak. But have sex with children and all you have to do is repent.
Stay in your own damn country....those people have enough problems.....
what the pope is really trying to do is say this in a polite way: "STOP SCREWING EACH OTHER YOU HORNY LUSTFIELD AFRICAN BASTARDS! IF YOU'RE INFECTED THEN CONDOMS WONT CHANGED THE FACT THAT YOUR SCREWING IS CONTAMINATING OTHERS!"
Isn't that a nice summary of the point he's trying to make? <3
Africans can only be good at three things: running, killing themselves and having sex. Why tell them not to do the last two if only a handful marathonists can participate in the Olympics?
They've proven rather effective at overthrowing governments.
Does the Pope see the magnitude of human tragedy in Africa and now he asking them not to use condoms? What a motherfucker.
He is selfish and unreasonable. How can he call himself compassionate?
When I first saw the new pope, I thought "that guy's definitely a pedophile. He absolutely is the spitting image if pedophilia incarnate. WTF was the church thinking if electing him as head of state?!"
Therefore, not much was expected of him from me.
I'll lie down my take on this stright foward and honest.
I don't think Condoms by themselves is going to work
I don't think Abstance by themselves is going to work
I don't think religion by themselves is going to work
I don't think Edacation by themselves is going to work.
To get results you must use all of the about, and also I don't think the pope can get away with saying use condoms when get the urge for a quicke. if he did his followers would tar and feather him. and if they don't have tar and feathers they'll use hot wax and packing popcorn.
(has a vision of the pope hot waxed and popcorned)
Hmmmm... coooool.
Well that's my take. and to those who grip (that one unknamed person) if you want kids, condoms don't stop you.
he already got tared and feathered and waxed and popcorned after rehabilitating williamson, and not only by his followers
sure is a bold one to state something like this shortly afterwards
From now on I shall avoid all articles related to religion as long as they aren't at least also related to East Asia. This comment was written for the sole purpose of encouraging fellow users who too are annoyed at the recent shift of subjects covered to do the same, as dropping hit numbers appear to be the only language Artefact is willing to understand.
There's an increasing amount of Church problems/ scandals nowadays... I wonder why...
Maybe because Jewish control of the Media tightens nowadays...
>.< I hope all the comments here can solve the problem (more than arguing). LOL
with reading Pope to Africa: “Don’t Use Condoms!” i thought it was gonna be lulz. like, they're all gonna get it anyway, why bother .
"But they’re already fucking each other without protection. Hence the need for condoms. It’s sort of like handing out clean needles to druggies. If they’re already shooting themselves and don’t want to stop then at least they won’t put themselves and people around them in any more danger than they’re already in."
and being a druggie is such a good thing ya need to encourage it and hand em clean needles...
while the thought of 2d wives being sent there and having them get hooked on it is lulzy, its impossible. it costs too much. like computers, internet connection, not to mention other otaku stuff. only RICH countries have the luxury of 2d wives. that and its cheaper, easier and more fun to fuck your neighbor...
unfortunately more prone to HIV as well.
i don't care what you guys think, catholic is win.
kill someone = just say around 100 hail mary*
raep = around 70
steal = around 50
i mean, its all good, just say a few hail marys and yer golden mwahahahaha. you can do anyhing. course if the law gets ya yer dead, so kill witnesses aight.
*-the prayer
Don't they believe that raping a virgin cures one of AIDS in many parts of Africa? Of course, with all the AIDS and rape, all the AIDS infected men have to turn to newborns.
Dispite the graveness of this article, whoever thought, then conviced entire societes of that FACT must be the most epic troll in history.
Yep.
Thanks Pope for destroying in a few minutes the hard voluntary work of thousands of people.
Fuck him. It's because of minds just like his one that the church gets a bad image.
Because of actions like that we get to see new extremist actions and people getting one more reason to go all looney doing stupid stuff... like that case here in Brazil seen not long ago here in Sankaku.
I'm an atheist myself, but I don't mind religion and religious people, as long as they don't suddenly decide to go dark ages on my face.
Even the priests in Africa said WTF to his statements.
Priests in Africa and their flock are obliged to obey the pope because it's an "authoritative statement".
The reason why Catholics don't like condoms and anything outside of ejaculating inside a woman is because it's against natural law, which is to let the sperm meet the egg.
Also another "authoritative statement" is that man is not allowed dominion over his sexual faculties.
Apparently it was a medieval concept that they want to carry into today.
christianity is going down the road to mimic islam's way to extremism
Catholicism*
So who profits from them doing so? It's Judaism who's receiving the image boost they so desperately need after all those boys who died during circumcision...
Sadly it's a fact that many priests in Africa tell prostitutes (!) not to use condoms for the sake of their "salvation".
The Pope : Lawful/Evil
Since when he became a conscience to greater good while he doesn't know about his legion of priests commiting malicious mischiefs like being dumb and deaf during WWII?
I haven't really thought of the Catholic church as EVER being lawful evil- granted that's what they say they are (lawful) but their actions are more Neutral Evil from the church turning a blind eye to slavery , the nazi/jewish holocaust, and the excesses of their own child molesting priests.
Yeah definitely Neutral Evil!
Explain to me the dazling logic of how the pope is related to priests in WW2?
Sure, the bible says that we must pay for the sins of our fathers, but even it doesn't go as far as saying we are responsible for them.
I think he's talking about the pope letting holocaust deniers back into the church. A pretty sore subject since the pope was in the Hitler Youth.
so you think nazism and christianity is contradicting each other? please prove that
Shouldn't he be harming people out of malice in order to qualify for evil? Spreading "the word of god" is his job afik.
Don't relate him to D&D or we will have another bunch of brain dead fundamentalist fanatics who claim it is somehow related to the devil and satanic b*** s***.
...why is the bull censored?? Isn't Bull s*** good enough....hell, BULL SHIT!! CHRISTIANITY IS FUCKING BULLSHIT
Hey...is the "report" button a new feature?? I just noticed it yesterday...was it always there?
Sigh. When will the pope realize he's worshipping the wrong god, who's not a fictional genki girl from Japan?
BTW, if you didn't see what I did there,
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
My bet is on Tsuruya-san, but the god would be Haruhi...
Ya see, THIS is why I'm an atheist. >.>
Because ONE PERSON says something dumb. Cool story bro.
This one person is the motherf*cking HEAD OF YOUR RELIGION.
This one person is only the mother*cking head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Christianity != Roman Catholic Church.
you can choose to be catholic. you can't choose what country you're born in (and you can move, so there)
>Christianity != Roman Catholic Church
Not if he (the pope) had his way...
Well then... if your president or whatever your leader is says something stupid (following your own logic) then you would be at fault...?
LOL
This is not about faith, this is about the head of the Catholic Church being an idiot.
Man... our pope (I am german)...
I really think spiritual awakening is not the way to fight against the desease.
Africans should be provided with condoms, and more education about the topic.
so please, Papa-Razzi, let it be, k?
If by "spiritual and human awakening" he means genocide, then they're on the right track.
Maybe the International Court in Den Haag should take a look at this. Instigation to genocide or something.
Oh Pope-san ~ you so crazy.
We will fight AIDS and HIV with divine ignorance. Right.
This is obviously a sensationalist headline.
You must have something against the Pope Artefact, because the article says nothing about the Pope stating "condoms do nothing to preventing AIDS/HIV" but rather it says the pope said "handing out condoms is not the answer in the fight against HIV/Aids."
I mean cmon, it's right there at the top of the article!
Obviously the pope is saying that condoms only encourage more sex, which constitutes more risk. He also states that the correct way to solve the problem is not with money (buying condoms for these people), but with "Spiritual and Human Awakening", that is basically teaching the people the benefits of abstinence.
I dislike religion as much as the next atheist, but that is no reason to twist words to this extent.
And kudos to all you commenters who did not even read the article, sheep.
Yeah, give an African guy a condom, and he's safe from the AIDS for a day. Teach him to whack off to Animu hentai instead of having intercourse, and he's safe for life.
^You sir, are a genius.
Especially Otaku should be able to relate to the pope's demands. I mean, isn't religion some kind of obsession in itself?
Otaku have long proposed that it would be better for the world if people got their kicks out of obsessing over anime girls complete with collecting figures, reading official manga and doujinshi, and lots of fapping, than out of laying people they met at bars or clubs or whatever was the common method at that time.
Catholic Christianity has long proposed that it would be better for the world if people got their kicks out of obsessing over Jesus complete with collecting crucifes, reading the bible and related fanbooks, and lots of praying, than out of laying people they met at bars or clubs or whatever was the common method at that time.
Otakism and Christianity have lots in common. Christianity is only one step more extreme than Otakism because it implies that obsessing over Jesus could replace the physical need for sexual stimulation, while Otakism stops at implying that obsessing over anime and games can replace the physical need for social activities including 3D humans.
"Obviously the pope is saying that condoms only encourage more sex, which constitutes more risk"
how, exactly ?
they have sex anyway. better protected, right ?
if it is true that condoms will encourage more sex, it won't constitute more risk, since it's safer :\
also the way artefact wrote the article is fine; he clearly stated that condoms do nothing to prevent aids, which is wrong, and also that "it will increase the problem".
seriously, it's exactly what he said: artefact did not twist anything, and i can assure you since i saw the proper news service even more than just 1 time. it's maybe a vice of translation or whatever, but even so, changing the words do not change the content of his speech.
pope should really learn how condoms work, before talking.
or he could just shut the fuck up.
I'm with you Julius
i even went to see the news in other places (BCC included) and while i still don't agree with it what he said isn't as bad as the idea of what this article transmits
just as an example, the phrase "they can even increase the problem" looks like it's referring to condoms when in truth is actually referring to distribution, because in fact what he said was something like "it [the distribution] can even increase the problem"...
BBC headline: "condoms wrong".
Oh come on, it's just that the Jewish media want to blame world's problems on the other religions again.
Media tells you Islam is the cause for terrorism, Media tells you Christianity is the cause for overpopulation and spread of AIDS: same thing!
just to say, I don't agree with the pope at all.
But I still stand by that this is written sensationalized and inaccurate because the BBC article never said anything about the pope saying that using condoms was bad. He said distribution (like throwing condoms of trucks) is bad (one can only assume he means that it contributes to moral decay).
While it does not explicitly say that the pope said that condoms are good or bad (just the distribution), it does say that distribution is not the best way to prevent aids. So I think a better title would be "Pope tells Africa abstinence is better than condoms". And in that sense, even the BBC article is slightly sensationalized.
well..
let's put it this way:
pope says "condoms aren't the solution to aids"
ok. i don't completely agree, but i can see the point. you may want to say that education, abstinence are needed to eradicate the problem, since you're catholic and blablabla.
but then, he adds: "and condoms make thing worse". in my country the news reported it something like "pope says condoms are not a solution to aids spreading, but instead it'll help it spreading".
i wasn't there, and they didn't let us see the whole video, so i cannot say for sure.
but still...
Yes, because more sex _with_ condoms is more risky than less sex _without_ condoms. Especially in a place where most people carry HIV. /sarcasm
The pope is _against_ condoms - this is a fact. The Catholic Church is against the use of contraceptives in general. They would prefer total abstinence unless you're having sex with your lawfully wed partner to make babies. What they don't want to realize is that people don't work this way, have never worked this way, and no amount of "spiritual and human awakening" is going to change that.
Yeah right. Cut the pope some slack here, he's not advising people to have sex without condoms so it's not his fault that HIV and overpopulation ruin the country.
You say it's his fault because people listen to him when it comes to condoms, but it's just as much not his fault because people don't listen to him when it comes to sex.
It's clearly the people's fault for not realizing that you should either follow his advice completely or not at all. If they think they can make up for not practicing abstinence by not using condoms either, they are clearly too stupid to be helped either way.
I kinda disagree with this, I know many many people both athiests and religious that don't want to have sex before marriage. Of course this doesn't work for everyone.
Im sure you'll agree that no sex is the best way to stop the spread of HIV, with using condoms coming a close second. If you ignore for a second for the fact that Catholics are against condoms and pre-marital sex, and just weigh up the pros and cons, obviously less sex would be good for Africa right now. But if you can't stop them having sex, then of course, give them condoms.
^ what he said
We need a gallery of girls holding condom packages(mostly in their teeth). It's sexy but rare.
theyre not that rare. ive seen alot of them actually.
link please
I'll believe it when I see it. Sankaku, don't let me down! It's gallery time!
Go sankaku! go!
will Mikee show up here?
doesnt he only post on unrelated articles only to kill lulz and has nothing important to say. like the viper chalenges.
oh, yeah, i forgot.
he doesn't show up on these kinda things
Religion? What religion? Last I checked, anyone who believe in an omnipotent creator who neglects the world he/she created was shot by China.
Unfortunately, the Chinese did a bad job. There are some millions of those left around the world.
Should fix this ASAP
Sounds pretty good to me. But try not to kill the smart ones and the non-whory males. But quite a bit of the females can stay. :D
yea relly they need to finish what they started
the answer is Tenga Eggs.. lots of them
I wonder if Tenga would be willing to fund some as PR stunt.
only if there's a proft to be had. no money, no PR stunt
For some reason, now all I can think about is someone following the Pope around when he goes to talk about this, holding a "[citation needed]" sign over his head.
Also: In b4 religious debate.
Or holding a huge banner "Captain Pickard making facepalm" over his head...
Reply to MaimeDaifuku: I wonder, when will religion finally understand the greater good of silence.
Also: In during religious debate... This topic have the utmost comments, lol.
*sigh* when will religion finally understand the greater good of science.
yes he is not in medical business after all.
islam would be more about prrevention and health care. we ought not smoke and drink (alcohol) for health reasons (and also spiritual)
about 4 years after they stop beliving in their religion.
also in b4 religious debate...
It's people like the pope who give religion such a bad reputation...not every Christian is completely retarded, although since those kind of people are the loudest, you'd almost think so.
I mostly blame those who blindly follow the religion (which, sadly, is a majority).
Like a bunch of rapists are gonna practice abstinence (lol) or "spiritual awakening" (LOL!). Please...this guy needs to get out more.
Living in Africa is usually a crippling and fatal disease.
If they want to protect themselves from catching a crippling and fatal disease they will.
Like a bunch of rapists are gonna start using more condoms if only the pope told them to...
The Pope is the POPE, though. So at the very least, he is speaking for the opinions of the entire Roman Catholicism. At some point, you have to stop claiming this to be the work of the minority, and accept the fact that the comment from the Pope is the popular opinion of his people.
He is not the loudest; he is the most powerful, and can make others do what he says. That's the difference.
"not every Christian is completely retarded, although since those kind of people are the loudest, you’d almost think so."
ILUSM
every christian is retarded... every last one of them.